Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

March 13, to Mr. and Mrs. Mack Sullivan of Newton tp., a son. I defy competition on suits and top coats, as I know I can give you better prices and better prices and better quality than you can get elsewhere.— C. Earl Duvall. You are cordially invited to come in and see the new ginghams (Shetucket), percales, Unweaves, bastistes, lawns, calicoes, silk Panamas, etc. — Chicago Bargain Store. NyMir. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig returned Sunday from spending the winter with their children in the south. They report a daughter born to Mrs. Clara Fendig Jacobs at New Orleans last week.

Dignity, simplicity and refinement mark the dominant characteristics of this season’s styles. Exaggeration has given way to moderation. More dependence is placed on the technique of the tailor for expression and effect and less on-* oddity of design. For the kind of clothes, C. Earl Duvall. Vaughn Woodworth returned home Friday night from Gibbon, Neb., where he had been for the past three months in the employe of his uncle. He is rather undecided what he will do now, thinking some of going back to school. He went to Lafayette Monday to make a short visit with friends. The frantic efforts of J. Frank Hanly, et al. to annul the charter of the French Lick Springs Hotel Co., of which Thomas Taggart is the president, have come to naught, the 'State losing out in its ouster suit at Paoli Monday when the jury brought in a verdict favorable to the hotel company.

Kentland Democrat: Sheriff M. C. Sawyer returned last evening from Phoenix, Arizona, and other points in the sunny south where he has been spending the winter months. Mose is looking much better than he did when he went away and haj grown some twenty pounds heavier since then. Pullins Bros, shipped two toms and three hens of their noted strain of M. B. turkeys yesterday to Gentleman’s Seat, Pittsworth, Australia, the order for which they recently received. The postoffice order in payment for same was 20 pounds, 16 shilling and 8 pence, and the letter containing same was started from Australia Jan. 25 and reached Rensselaer last Friday. Earl Leach is here from Dubuque. lowa, for a week’s visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Leach. For some years Earl has been conducting a barber shop at Chandler, Okla., but recently sold same and is now working at the barber’s trade in Dubuque. His father •is in very poor health and quite feeble. hence his visit here at this time. NSaurday’s Lake County Times: Airs. Orlan Grant of Rensselaer, who submitted to an operation at the Chicago hospital several weeks ago, has recovered sufficiently to be able to be removed to the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles Kasson, 1 Bellview place, She will remain here until she is able to go to her home in Rensselaer. Her many friends will be glad to know she is recovering so nicely.

A A small blaze was discovered upstairs Monday evening at the home of C. M. Sands on South Van Rensselaer street. The fire company misunderstood the fire plug number and chased themselves out to Babcock & Hopkins elevator and then discovered the mistake, but arrived at Mr. Sands’ residence in time to get the chemical extinguisher into play. The bed clothing had caught fire in some manner. James A. Burnham, who was expecting to be able to go to the soldiers home at Marion last week for treatment, has been failing steadily since and is now in a critical condition, with little or no hope of recovery. He is almost 74 years of age, and is so feeble that there is nothing to build to. His son-in-law, Chas. Morlan, who has been in the west prospecting tor several weeks, was telegraphed for last week and arrived home Sunday.